The National Review, Volume 71W.H. Allen, 1918 - English literature |
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Page 8
... guns , which this time last year were firing from Allied positions upon the enemy , are now in the latter's hands , and might fire upon the Allies , though whether there are the necessary munitions for this vast accretion we do not know ...
... guns , which this time last year were firing from Allied positions upon the enemy , are now in the latter's hands , and might fire upon the Allies , though whether there are the necessary munitions for this vast accretion we do not know ...
Page 19
... guns supplied by the Allies to the recalcitrant army . There was no attempt at resis- tance , which anyhow would now have been hopeless , despite the frenzied appeals and exhortations of the Bolsheviks to everybody else - especially the ...
... guns supplied by the Allies to the recalcitrant army . There was no attempt at resis- tance , which anyhow would now have been hopeless , despite the frenzied appeals and exhortations of the Bolsheviks to everybody else - especially the ...
Page 74
... gun and the shriek of a passing shell . And the irony of it ! Away behind we could clearly descry the illuminated Red Cross and green lines of two hospital ships . There they were , lightly riding the waters , suggestive of warmth , of ...
... gun and the shriek of a passing shell . And the irony of it ! Away behind we could clearly descry the illuminated Red Cross and green lines of two hospital ships . There they were , lightly riding the waters , suggestive of warmth , of ...
Page 75
... guns . The impossible condition of No Man's Land was our best defence . The day passed drearily enough , and no rations arrived . The low country behind our lines was under water and impassable to wheeled transport . Seventeen men left ...
... guns . The impossible condition of No Man's Land was our best defence . The day passed drearily enough , and no rations arrived . The low country behind our lines was under water and impassable to wheeled transport . Seventeen men left ...
Page 83
... gun could not dispel the hush of the place . Then I fell to thinking of the creatures of the steppe - of the souslik colony , and the hoopoe and shrike families ; of the dung - beetles who rolled their burden together ; the bee - eaters ...
... gun could not dispel the hush of the place . Then I fell to thinking of the creatures of the steppe - of the souslik colony , and the hoopoe and shrike families ; of the dung - beetles who rolled their burden together ; the bee - eaters ...
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